Chapter 134
Nothing happened that night, but the next day, Qingxi and the other two, along with the crow, were still unable to set off.
Because it was still raining heavily outside the wooden house.
"Are we facing a typhoon?" Qingxi said melancholy, standing by the sliding door, opening it a tiny crack. The rain outside continued to fall. "If I had known we'd encounter weather like this, I wouldn't have even taken the long walk. I'd have waited until the rain was over before continuing on."
She looked up at the leaking spots around the cabin. Before they rested yesterday, they had filled those spots with the tools available in the house to prevent rainwater from leaking in. However, after a night, rainwater still leaked into the leaking spots in the cabin.
She patted the empty space in the cabin for people to rest and said, "I have a tent. Let's set it up and hide in it."
The space inside is a bit cramped, but it doesn't leak, so in this respect, it's very good.
Higekiri also looked at the wooden house they were staying in and nodded. "Then let's use it. If the rain outside keeps coming down like that, this wooden house won't last."
"Ah, that—"
Just as Qingxi was about to take something out of her gourmet backpack, Horikawa Kunihiro suddenly said, "Someone is rushing towards us."
Higekiri neatly rolled up the mat blanket and stuffed it into the girl's arms before she could react. They were all used to going out, so when resting in the wild, they had to keep an eye on the things they brought with them. This was a rule deeply engraved in the minds of the swordsmen in Honmaru. After all... the two previous Shinsengumi of Honmaru were so stingy.
If you want to live a good life, you have to take good care of your things. If you lose something, the Shinsengumi won't replace it.
"Anyone out there alone in this weather is either a powerful person or one of those man-eating ghosts Tsurumaru mentioned." Higekiri patted the dazed girl's head and warned her softly with a hint of danger, "Be good, little one! Put all your things away. If you really get into a fight with a ghost later, you won't be able to keep them."
Qingxi realized what she was photographed and shoved the things in her arms, along with the blanket thrown by Horikawa Kunihiro, into her food backpack. She then took out a wakizashi and said, "To be honest, I used to only encounter ghosts once a year. This year, I've been out and about late at night, so I've encountered them more often. I just didn't expect to encounter them in the broad daylight when it's raining."
She looked at the katana worn by Higekiri at his waist, then at the wakizashi of Horikawa Kunihiro. Then, she walked to his side, and when the other party paid a little attention to look at her, she handed the wakizashi to him.
"Ghosts are afraid of the sun, wisteria flowers, and the Nichirin Sword. I'm not sure if your true forms can cut them down. Anyway, I'll leave this Wakizashi Horikawa with you for now." After a pause, she took out two haori and reminded the two, "How about you put on the haori?
I don't know how to put it, but it seems that people in this era will turn a blind eye to the swords worn at their waists when they put on a haori. If it were a human coming in from outside, I guess he wouldn't be able to see the samurai swords worn at your waists."
A girl’s complaints should not be full of complaints.
Horikawa Kunihiro suppressed his laughter and took the wakizashi.
It can be seen that this sword was made by the swordsmith according to the girl's current body shape. After all, judging from the wounded at the Butterfly House before, the Nichirin swords equipped by the Demon Slayer Corps to the members are all tachi styles.
As for why it is a knife.
That's of course because the ōdachi is too heavy, the tachi is too heavy, the wakizashi blade is a little short, the tanto and naginata are not suitable, so the only thing left is the "jack of all trades" tachi.
"People outside are coming over, Master, please go to Higekiri-dono." Horikawa Kunihiro took the haori and put it on quickly, reminding her.
Qingxi was very careful about her life. She had already given the things to Horikawa Kunihiro. She turned around and ran to Higekiri's side. She looked at the coat that he had somehow managed to drape over his shoulders without falling, and then looked at the haori in his hand. She hesitated. The coat could be counted as the haori, and she didn't know if the people who came into the room later would not be able to see it.
However, that should be impossible. After all, Higekiri's battle uniform is a close-fitting suit, and the hem just reaches about the waist. If a person has such a long sword hanging on his waist, he must be very blind to not see it.
The girl's embarrassment was written all over her face. Higekiri watched with amusement for a while, and finally he took the haori from the girl's wrist and put the hood of his white suit on her.
He quickly put on the long and wide haori, and before Qingxi could react, he had already picked her up. "Good girl, protect yourself. I can already sense... the breath of an evil ghost."
Before she could complain about how he, a demon-slaying sword, could distinguish between the "demons" that were transformed from humans into man-eating "demons" by Muzan Kibutsuji's blood, or that they were two different concepts in essence, but in your hands they were both "ghosts" so you could feel it, she had already been picked up, and when the door of the wooden house was broken from the outside, he carried her out of the wooden house, which looked shabby because it had not been maintained for a long time.
The moment they left the cabin, the heavy rain outside soaked Higekiri's creamy yellow hair.
Although Qingxi used his coat to keep out the rain, the coat was not waterproof after all. After a while, her hair and clothes became wet.
She looked in the direction of Horikawa Kunihiro through the rain, but the rain was too heavy. Apart from some flashes of swords and sabers, she could only see two figures separating and reuniting there.
She pulled Higekiri's clothes and asked, "Is Horikawa okay?"
She wasn't familiar with the two men, and all she knew was that they were swordsmen, so she thought nothing should happen.
The reason why she was so worried was that Yaken looked too mature, which made Horikawa, who was newly summoned by her, seem a little too "young" compared to him.
Higekiri's eyes were always on Horikawa Kunihiro. When he heard the voice of the girl in his arms, he lowered his head and said in a soft voice, "It's nothing, and..." He paused, "It's almost over."
As if to confirm his words, the sound of fighting stopped with a scream.
Qingxi immediately took out a large rolled-up eraser from her gourmet backpack. Under Higekiri's curious gaze, she threw the eraser to the ground. The next moment, it seemed to be inflated and grew bigger and bigger, and finally expanded into a translucent one-room apartment.
At the girl's signal, Higekiri and Horikawa Kunihiro, who was jogging back, walked in together.
"It's an inflatable rubber house. Looks fun." Putting Kiyoki down, Higekiri looked down at the rubber floor beneath his feet. He then stomped on the spot with both feet, feeling his strength bounce back before walking back inside. "Master, why didn't I see you take it out before?"
Qingxi trotted around the house and placed some furniture, and these pieces of furniture all had one characteristic: they were round and had no edges.
She said, “I do think so, but there are too many disadvantages.
Because it is made of rubber and is inflated, the whole house is very light and will be blown away by a strong wind. Don’t think that I took it out quickly, but it will be very troublesome to let the air out and put it away.
...So, can't you see I'm putting furniture all over it right now to weigh it down?"
"Draw the curtain and change your clothes." Qingxi took out two sets of dry clothes and two towels for them. "Don't even think about taking a bath with hot water. I don't have any here. If you want some hot tea, I can think of a way."
As she walked towards the only room, she said, "I think it should be okay for you guys to stay in the living room. I'll go change in my room."
After changing their clothes, the three of them continued to stay in the rubber tent. Because the tent was translucent, if they got bored, they could sit in a row and watch the rain and scenery outside.
Qingxi yawned and drank the tea that she had boiled with a barbecue stone. She said, "I'm going to sleep inside. Good night."
"good evening."
"good evening."
Before falling asleep, she seemed to remember something. She half-opened her eyes and said to Jiro who had followed her in, "Jiro, keep your claws. If you scratch this, we'll have to live in a small tent."
Jiro clucked in dissatisfaction, but thinking of the meaning of the girl's words, he could only retract his claws.
The rain lasted for three days and only stopped in the afternoon of the third day.
The three of them packed up the rubber tent together, and at Qingxi's urging, they hurried on their way.
"Hurry up, I must get to the Wisteria House ahead before dark..." the girl muttered as she walked.
In this way, the three people and the crow walked for seven or eight days in this continuously bad weather before they arrived at Grandpa Qin and Grandma Su's home.
"Oh, girl, why do you choose to come here at this time?" Seeing the familiar crow in the yard, followed by a knock on the door, Grandma Su hurried out to open the door, and saw three people standing outside the door, tall and short.
She didn't know the two young men and the boy, but she knew the youngest one among them.
She made way for them and pulled the girl inside. "Although your grandfather and I are old, we can still take good care of the two children of the Shitou family. The weather has been so bad these past few days, there's no need for you to rush over now. What if you catch a cold, have a fever, or get sick? You always say you're afraid of taking bitter medicine. If you take it for a few days, you'll be the one suffering."
Grandpa Qin, who came out to see what was happening after hearing the noise, was urged by his wife to boil some water before he could say anything.
"The clothes are all damp. Come on, let's go back to the house and sit down. Wait for the old man to boil water and you can all take a good bath."
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